by Ana Urbina (Admin)
What is the best strategy to monitor door rings?
The hot stamping process for producing high-quality door rings is particularly tricky. Since door rings are made combining different segments (usually with sheets of different thickness), and sometimes applying additional sheet patches, your monitoring solution must be able to provide a complete image of the surface to ensure that no defects occur.
This is why the Line Scanner is the superior choice for this application.
Unlike pyrometers that can only detect specific points, line scanners can monitor an entire surface, making them the perfect device for inline thermal monitoring in conjunction with our PH Inspector system.
This combination dramatically improves detection of common problems such as geometric errors and overlaps, which would simply be impossible with pyrometers. By monitoring zones, transition areas, and overlaps, you can be sure that the shape of the door ring will be exactly as it was intended.
Furthermore, this monitoring system is fully automated: it includes in-cycle protocols as well as automatic test recipe switching for different products/shapes.
MP300 Line Scanner:
- High scanning speed of 300 lines per second
- up to 1024 measuring points per line
- wide range of spectral and temperature ranges
- high quality scanner motor with MTBF 40.000 h
- integrated Ethernet TCP/IP interface
- PC independent alarm output
- PC independent 4-20 mA interfaces (3 outputs)
- I/O module support for up to 10 sectors/zones (PC independent)
- internal line laser as sighting aid
- robust IP65 housing
- air purge attachment to maintain a clean measuring window
- integrated water cooling
PH-Inspector:
- full CQI-9 Rev. 4 conformity of the IR temperature measurement
- recording independent of PLC cycle times
- support for tailored tempering
- monitoring of transfer zones, independent of sheet position
- support of IR line scanners, IR thermal imaging cameras and pyrometers
- can be combined with SelVision camera solutions (position control, destacking, etc)
- in cycle protocols for the connection with higher-level QS systems
- automated report feature
- open system for an individual extension